PHILLIPS, SAM
(*1923)
PHILLIPS, SAM (b. Samuel Cornelius P., near Florence, Ala., January 5, 1923) Phillips was the legendary recording engineer/owner of Sun Records who discovered, among others, ELVIS PRESLEY and made him a star. Phillips's father owned a large tenant farm on the Tennessee River just outside of Florence, Alabama, and was fairly well-to-do until the stock market crash decimated his savings. In 1941 his father died, and Phillips left high school, taking jobs at a grocery store and then a funeral…